IT Law

The information age is fast-paced. Companies must adapt quickly, or risk fading away. Legislative changes can come overnight, when mandated by court decision. For example, recent changes to the safe harbor data transfer rules. Factors like these can leave companies in legal limbo with their operations hanging in the balance.

Representative experience

Advising an online bank on a major IT project involving the replatforming of the bank's core technology platform on a fully outsourced basis.

Advising a major financial institution on its Pingit mobile banking application, Europe’s first person-to-person service for sending and receiving money using mobile phone numbers.

Advising a bank on an agreement with a mobile service provider to provide a near-field contactless payment service through mobile handsets.

Assisting a global media company and its affiliates in drafting and negotiating agreements for outsource development, operation, and maintenance of a mobile payment processing platform.

Advising ITV on a renegotiation and extension of critical technology services arrangements for the playout of all of its television channels, including an innovative risk sharing solution.

Advising a provider of cloud-enabled enterprise hosting and application management services on the localization of Master Services and Reseller Agreements for use in other jurisdictions.

Advising on a global IT outsourcing transaction for Textron Inc. worth approximately US$1.1bn over a 10-year term.

Assisting a construction and engineering company on four multijurisdictional IT and telecoms outsourcing projects, including negotiating framework agreements with the supplier and deployment of local agreements.

Advising an entertainment provider on the negotiation of services agreements with developers of various web-based applications and data products.

Defending an insurance and healthcare company in litigation alleging breach of an open source license and patent infringement claims, in the Northern District of California.